If you want Fedora to be a platform...

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 04:40:48PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> - "a platform for applications" = "deployment target" = "API": e.g.
> when saying "This application runs on Linux" / "This is a Rails
> application", "I want Fedora to be a platform attractive to
> application developers"
> 
> - "a platform for ecosystems" = "a (hidden) base for APIs/deployment
> targets"; e.g. "I want Fedora to be a platform for Rails, Python and
> GNOME"  (with developers presumed to be writing Rails and Python and
> GNOME applications)
> 
> - "a platform for operating systems" = "a toolset for developing
> custom distributions": "I want Fedora to be a platform for Sugar / my
> phone hacking".
> 
> - "not a product": "I want Fedora to be a platform carrying software I
> like, not a product held to a higher standard of integration"  (No one
> actually says it like this but that's what it sometimes amounts to.)

I've mostly avoided it in my presentation -- it only appears in the intro
and in the conclusion. There, I actually do mean _all_ of the first three
things, and possibly also the last one, although you've phrased it in a
negative way.


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